This is the Fraser River at New Westminster. The city is mostly built on a slope at the bend of the River. There was a park at Ash near Gloucester that one could sit on a bench at the North side of this park and watch the Fraser to the South and West without obstruction.
That view has had this...
done to it. This is a few years old...so it's much worse now.
This is the tip of the iceberg. Most of Vancouver's major streets have become a parking lot during the day. Condos are everywhere, and yet there is still a 'Housing Shortage'.
The previous BC Liberal leader Gordon Campbell instituted draconian reforms designed to attack the poor and the weak. He gave those who could swing a hammer a job to build these eye-sores and gave everyone else the finger. His attacks on social programs actually killed people. Cuts to welfare and advocacy programs. People who couldn't get a job were tossed out into the streets because they couldn't pay their meager rent...for the kind of place you would expect to get for $300 a month. Oh...and the first thing this amazing human being did was to give himself and his cronies a raise just to twist that knife in. He should have been fired; (and by which I mean to preface with 'doused with gas and lit on'...)
Okay...so Draconian measure to get the Province back on track, right? So...somehow the Liberals get in and there is this flood in demand for 'More Housing'. Shit!? How did that happen!? A Change in Political Party somehow produces a massive spike in population gain!? No. The "BC Liberal" party is so in bed with the land developers AND foreign real estate investors AND foreign rich pricks with fist fulls of cash. They couched it in terms of 'Providing Jobs'. Yes...you will have the opportunity to swing a hammer for your corporate overlords until you get Carpo Tunnel Syndrome where you will make your masters a ton of money and barely have enough to pay your rent. You will never be able to afford the properties you are building...that money goes into someone elses pockets...someone with lily white hands...someone who hasn't worked hard in his whole damn life! His family will be kept in the lap of luxury for the next 200 years for what they pulled over on you. You, on the other hand, just want to make sure your kids can keep a roof over their heads in the next 10 years.
The problem is that their greed is unsustainable. Selling Vancouver by the inches can never really be a Renewable Resource. You're not creating 'Long Term' Solutions. This is short sighted thinking. They are robbing the People's bank with smiles, statistics and 'we're supposed to be here' and giving it all to the rich. Is this 'Tricklenomics?' Because I know exactly what's trickling down and it isn't money. Who is going to be paying for it? The people. The average hard-working people are going to be paying for some rich crook and his fancy antics...for generations.
Highly charismatic developer, philanthropist and patron of the arts for which he was awarded Order_of_British_Columbia. His charitable contributions and efforts awarded him Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He only started selling Condo's in 1990 and was so good at it that by 2002 his donations (Very Tax Deductible) were enough to get him an award by the Queen in 2002!!! That's how much money is actually going to the top!!! His Generosity seems supreme to us down here in the trenches...but, to him, it's a tax deduction and a PR move. $26 Million is his Tax Deduction!!! Yes...we're talking about
Bob ('I can't believe he's not gay') Rennie.
Now Bob has a great personality...actually he's got several: My favorite is the bumbling nervous accountant when he wants to quote numbers that are inaccurate (because who would ever question a socially awkward accountant of being nefarious). Christie Clark got all of her Real Estate Board information this way. "There's only 5% foreign buyers!". A tax of 15% on Foreign buyers lowers sales by 40%. Huh? It's almost like he lied.
You could swing a hammer for a million years and you will never get an award by the queen. Exploit millions and donate to charity your 'Tax Deduction' and you're a fucking hero!
To add insult to injury, you will be TAXED TO PAY FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THESE DEVELOPERS DON'T PAY ENOUGH FOR!!!
If we could tear off the layers of bureaucracy, all of this crap is to basically make you a slave without you realizing it.
Now, 2017, with the writing on the wall...some 'Mysterious group shows up with their $100,000,000 ad campaign to besmirch the NDP. 'Future Prosperity for BC'
This is a tiny portion of the money you made for these fuckers. This is how they keep their golden ticket. You should be offended by this. They've exploited you and are now rubbing it in your face.
If you are dumb enough to vote for these fuckers then you are licking their shit off the sidewalk and are too God Damn LAZY to open your fucking eyes to realize it.
It makes me upset; the kind of monsters that can operate above the law while being nefarious in nature and deed. I honestly don't know how capable the NDP really is as a governing body but I do know how the BC Liberals have advocated only for the rich...and, by default, screwed everyone else. Greater Vancouver is a mess not because the BC Liberal Party can't do a good job if they wanted to. They just don't want to. They are just like lawyers and only represent those who pay and support them - their Clients: The rich. After 16 years of pulling the wool over everyone's eyes - they have to go. At the very least it is an exercise in Democracy. It's a way for us to say "We were all supposed to be your clients - get the fuck out!"
Lets face it, guys; The BC Liberals are just Uber SoCreds with a stolen party title. We can't be fooled again.
'Future Prosperity for BC' is nothing more than a bunch of rich cunts who like having Sellouts in Government like the "honorable" Gordon Campbell... and Christy Clark; a woman who looks best and most natural in pictures with her mouth open.
You have to wonder how much money these 'Bottom Liners' are making off of the BC Liberals that they can drop that much and consider it 'Money well spent'.
While you are sitting in traffic with your 'Transportation Mortgage'...consider this: They've attacked the weak and the poor. They've attacked the working class. They attack non-land owners. Who is next on their list? I know you have time to think about it on your 2 hour each way commute.